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Professor Adam Scaife, head of long range performance at the Met Office, said: “This forecast, which uses the new Met Office supercomputer, adds weight to our earlier prediction that 2017 will be very warm globally but is unlikely to exceed 2015 and 2016: the two warmest years on record.”

Last year the Met Office predicted 2016 would be about 0.84C hotter on average with a range of 0.72C and 0.96C.

This year it has predicted 2017 will be between 0.63 and 0.87C above average with a central estimation of 0.75C.

Professor Chris Folland, Met Office research fellow, said 2016 was well-forecast because the methods used to produce the outlook for the year detected the influence of the strong El Nino.

He added: “However, last year’s El Nino only accounts for around 0.2C of the global mean temperature rise for 2016, when compared with the long-term average between 1961 and 1990.

“Increasing greenhouse gasses are the main cause of warming since pre-industrial times.”

Earlier this month it was reported how temperatures soared to 17C, making it warmer than Tenerife.

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